Consumer culture and postmodernism
Mike Featherstone (Author)
Implicit within claims that society itself is in some sense postmodern is an argument about the priority of consumption as a determinant of everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations and experiences. Material goods are consumed as `communicators'; they are valued as signifiers of taste and of lifestyle. This volume examines the viability of this portrait of contemporary society. Mike Featherstone explores the roots of consumer culture, how it is defined and differentiated and the extent to which
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9781848609013, 1848609019
896909953
Cover; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Chapter 1
Modern and Postmodern: Definitions and Interpretations; Chapter 2
Theories of Consumer Culture; Chapter 3
Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture; Chapter 4
Cultural Change and Social Practice; Chapter 5
The Aestheticization of Everyday Life; Chapter 6
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture; Chapter 7
City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles; Chapter 8
Consumer Culture and Global Disorder; Chapter 9
Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures?; Chapter 10
The Globalization of Diversity. Chapter 11
Modernity and the Cultural QuestionBibliography; Index